Category: General
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Remote Work
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_text] While Spark::red has offices, we are primarily a distributed team, and as we continue to grow more and more of our team will be geographically separated from one another. So the…
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Jira to OmniFocus Integration
At Spark::red we use Jira extensively for internal projects and tasks, for alerts and issues, and for handling client support requests. It’s a great tool. I also use OmniFocus for other types of tasks: personal, errands, write an email to so-and-so, create a proposal, etc… What that’s left me with is two separate to-do lists,…
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Tools and Processes for Work
For the background on this, please read my first post – Tools and Processes While my work includes a lot of email, con-calls, proposals and contracts, the relevant tools and processes are covered in the previous post. Here I’m going to focus on the technical aspects of my work: writing code, managing servers, and troubleshooting…
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Tools and Processes
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] I’ve been working with computers since I was a kid. The longer I’ve been using technology on a day to day basis, the more integral to my daily life it has…
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Installing GitLab on RedHat Enterprise 5 RHEL 5
GitLab is a free (they also have a paid enterprise version) and open source software package to make managing a Git server easier. It provides a nice web admin, detailed user and group permissions, and much more. I looked at gitolite however I was unable to get it working correctly after several frustrating days, and…
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Working from the Beach part 5 Wrap Up
I’ve returned from Mexico after working there for a month. As you can tell, I didn’t keep up with the blog writing during the second half of my stay, but I wanted to write a bit of a wrap up about my first attempt at working from an exotic locale. I settled into a generally…